Best Sly Poems
Below are the all-time best Sly poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sly poems written by PoetrySoup members
Ballad of An Unsung HeroVivid flashbacks from bloodshed battles
his soul still ravaged by devious dictators,
cries from fallen comrades still echo in his mind,
but he continues to walk upon a...
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Categories:
sly, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form:
Ballad
I Am Willing,, a MiracleTo win is the trying..!' gainst despairs blank stare, a wounded earth still
rolls on..! Midst the throes of territorial vying..
Shows our shattered crystal the...
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Categories:
sly, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
sly, lost love, moon, sad
Form:
Free verse
Your Smile Sends MeYou were sly with your wanton stare
How you seduced me with only a look
Neither classic nor found in any book
Unique to you it...
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Categories:
sly, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...
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Categories:
sly, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Part Time PoetShe calls on me, intermittently
In fickle favor, in spotty dictionaries
My demure, distracted destiny
She is the unrequited lover, the absent mother
She is Santa, granting wishes
Upon orphan...
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Categories:
sly, angst, conflict, inspiration, jealousy,
Form:
Rhyme
Debacle
* Bringing this gem back in the hope Becca Teagan sees it and returns. We wrote this together, a labor of love. The poem ends...
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Categories:
sly, confusion, evil, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Dancing With the DevilLost between the borders of heaven and hell,
confusion led to this story, one must tell.
Surrounded by a world full of violence,
I closed my eyes and...
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Categories:
sly, angst, introspection, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
Even the Angels WeptThe day you died you took me with you,
The way you lied shook me black and blue.
The sorrow you felt, I sure felt it too,
The...
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Categories:
sly, angel, cry, depression, suicide,
Form:
Couplet
Workshop Poem: Grand Tour To FairylandWORKSHOP POEM: GRAND TOUR TO FAIRYLAND
Sprinkled-rainbow clouds reign above the skies,
peeping yellow in-between wrinkled pillars
shine like bulbs to crash the net of fog
attached to...
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Categories:
sly, beautiful, fantasy, imagery, journey,
Form:
Personification
DelusionOpulent the full moon glowed
Flooding light on a rocky road;
Casting down his gauzy veil
Luminescent to probe the pale.
Misty soft the shadows went
Into the secret sacrement;
Where...
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Categories:
sly, moon, moon,
Form:
Rhyme
Anxiety MonsterAnxiety, Anxiety-
you creep, you lurk, you worry me
Mangy monster under my bed
on all my fears you must be fed
and when I try to starve you...
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Categories:
sly, anxiety, emotions, feelings, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Recollections of a Condemned Man - Collaboration With Robert Lindley178 months, 129940 hours,
now only 10 minutes remain.
Sitting in cold eerie darkness,
he observes the rhythm of water drops,
slowly wipes away streams of sweat
with his withered...
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Categories:
sly, death,
Form:
Free verse
Eating Crow With New CollaborationsNo matter how some complain and bellow
they are exposed, each a trolling fellow
I'd look them in the eye
for telling one more lie
but I heard they're...
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Categories:
sly, hilarious,
Form:
Limerick
8 Little EgyptsSomething strange
and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast,
some say, perhaps,
it has already arrived,
it walks unseen, in...
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Categories:
sly, easter, humanity, words,
Form:
Narrative